1963 in science
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The year 1963 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy and space exploration
- May 15 - Mercury program: NASA launches the last mission of the program Mercury 9 (on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb told Congress the program was complete).
[edit] Biology
- Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane coins the word "clone".
[edit] Physics
- D. H. Frisch and J. H. Smith prove radioactive decay of mesons is slowed by their motion. (See Einstein's special relativity and general relativity).
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[edit] Deaths
- April 6 - Otto Struve (b. 1897), astronomer.fr:1963 en science
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